Villa Colonial Antigua Guatemala

... what we´ve been spending for lodging each night. In other words, it´s not cheap. So we jumped at the deal, although we didn´t know we were going to be limited to just beer (bummer). They had six different Guatemalan beers to choose from, so we decided the best way to take advantage of our deal was to try each one. Did we mention it was only 8 pm and we were literally the ONLY peoeple in the place? We posted at the bar and watched as the 20 ...

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I came as an independent traveler amongst strangers. However when traveling with like-minded people who all share the same purpose, you quickly become friends. By the end of a ten day adventure I was hugging all these people I had come to know so well in such a short time. With promises to keep in touch we said our goodbyes almost as quickly as we had shaken hands hello.

... is a liar, or that guy that swears he is leaving now will wait until more people turn up. The 40 minute trip (which should have been 1 hour) was interesting, it sounded like the driver was having a domestic with his wife, while zipping through lanes of traffic, cutting off a few annoyed drivers.

Antigua is a beautiful city, buildings brightly painted like those in the Caribbean but, as is the case with all tourist towns, prices were very inflated. Our hotel had no record of our ...

... nursing hangovers, we arrived in Antigua, population 45,000, but a virtual metropolis after the tiny town of San Pedro.



(Now remember, we lost our camera - and all our photos from Antigua - somewhere on the overland trip between Honduras and Mexico, just after we left Guatemala, so you'll just have to make do with some leftover ones from San Pedro and a few we stole ...

... eat back in Australia before my stomach shrunk, I swear about 4-5 weeks ago back home I could have eaten nearly twice as much. The hostel is run by anglos, and all the people here are anglos. I´ll probably try to avoid places like this when I get on my own, apart from when I get to points where I get bored or in need of some company. After dinner they were playing techno music and all sorts of **** in the bar that made me feel sick and like a bogan! The hostel is located in this ...

Hello, A long day in front of us. About 3 procession are schedule today. They all leave from a diferent church, travel for about 10 hours...and go back to the initial church. Enjoy the pictures. Very colorfull, very animated, plenty of people. This is a great exprience that I recomend to anybody...just a cultural choke ! Arnou familly

... of hostel after hostel but not finding one that quite satisfied. At one quite luxurious accommodation, the secretary informed us the price was 125. We couldn't believe it! What a deal, the place was absolutely gorgeous with marble floors, cable TV and granite counter tops. Chad imagined jumping up and down on the bed like Lloyd in Dumb and Dumber, yelling "we'll take it". We handed over 125 Quatzales to the smartly dressed ...

... which was about 75Q a nice priviate room with a shared bathroom. i immediantly went to the farmacias and hooked it up works about 1$ a pill generally, after that i spent my day wandering the markets and checking out the city which is pretty small. i went and had dinner at a pupsaria which was awesome. then proceeded to head down to los clubes there were only 2 one trance bar and the other had amreican music and reggae and rock..where me and my ...

... are all ****ed" at first I confused it for my own thoughts but then realized it was one if the other girls praying out loud. As we swam our guide pointed to some large rocks in the water to watch out for, the person behind the guide was responsible for passing on the info to the next person behind them, sometimes the message wouldn't get delivered to the last person and so that person would bang and slice their legs/feet/ knees on these very sharp rocks. Unfortunately ...

Antigua's nice, always was, and probably always will be. It may not be quite as rustic and indigenous as the true highlands, but that’s a trade-off. It’s VERY accessible to Guat City for easy in-and-out and therefore at the crossroads for the entire country. And it’s very beautiful, an old colonial town, the original capital. Guatemala no longer requires any visas whatsoever, ninety days on ...